.. _vyos.vyos.vyos_banner_module:


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vyos.vyos.vyos_banner
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**Manage multiline banners on VyOS devices**


Version added: 1.0.0

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Synopsis
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- This will configure both pre-login and post-login banners on remote devices running VyOS. It allows playbooks to add or remote banner text from the active running configuration.




Parameters
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                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>banner</b>
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                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
                         / <span style="color: red">required</span>
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                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
                                    <li>pre-login</li>
                                    <li>post-login</li>
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                        <div>Specifies which banner that should be configured on the remote device.</div>
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                    <b>provider</b>
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                        <span style="color: purple">dictionary</span>
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                        <div><b>Deprecated</b></div>
                        <div>Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using <code>connection: network_cli</code>.</div>
                        <div>For more information please see the <a href='../network/getting_started/network_differences.html#multiple-communication-protocols'>Network Guide</a>.</div>
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                        <div>A dict object containing connection details.</div>
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                    <b>host</b>
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                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
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                        <div>Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote device over the specified transport.  The value of host is used as the destination address for the transport.</div>
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                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>password</b>
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                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
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                        <div>Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device.   This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable <code>ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD</code> will be used instead.</div>
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                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>port</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">integer</span>
                    </div>
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                <td>
                </td>
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                        <div>Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device.</div>
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                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>ssh_keyfile</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">path</span>
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                        <div>Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device.   This value is the path to the key used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable <code>ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE</code> will be used instead.</div>
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                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>timeout</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">integer</span>
                    </div>
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                        <div>Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands.  If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error.</div>
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                    <td class="elbow-placeholder"></td>
                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>username</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
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                        <div>Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device.  This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable <code>ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME</code> will be used instead.</div>
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                    <b>state</b>
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                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
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                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>present</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
                                    <li>absent</li>
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                        <div>Specifies whether or not the configuration is present in the current devices active running configuration.</div>
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                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>text</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
                    </div>
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                <td>
                        <div>The banner text that should be present in the remote device running configuration. This argument accepts a multiline string, with no empty lines. Requires <em>state=present</em>.</div>
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Notes
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.. note::
   - Tested against VyOS 1.1.8 (helium).
   - This module works with connection ``network_cli``. See `the VyOS OS Platform Options <../network/user_guide/platform_vyos.html>`_.
   - For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the :ref:`Ansible Network Guide <network_guide>`



Examples
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.. code-block:: yaml+jinja

    - name: configure the pre-login banner
      vyos.vyos.vyos_banner:
        banner: pre-login
        text: |
          this is my pre-login banner
          that contains a multiline
          string
        state: present
    - name: remove the post-login banner
      vyos.vyos.vyos_banner:
        banner: post-login
        state: absent



Return Values
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Common return values are documented `here <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/common_return_values.html#common-return-values>`_, the following are the fields unique to this module:

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                    <b>commands</b>
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                      <span style="color: purple">list</span>
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                <td>always</td>
                <td>
                            <div>The list of configuration mode commands to send to the device</div>
                    <br/>
                        <div style="font-size: smaller"><b>Sample:</b></div>
                        <div style="font-size: smaller; color: blue; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-all;">[&#x27;banner pre-login&#x27;, &#x27;this is my pre-login banner&#x27;, &#x27;that contains a multiline&#x27;, &#x27;string&#x27;]</div>
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Status
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Authors
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- Trishna Guha (@trishnaguha)